Late Night Talk withAubrey Masango

In June last year government warned that 32 000 mine works could lose their jobs. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) came back with their own figures arguing that more than 57 000 workers in the industry faced a risk of potential cuts.

Are things still looking so gloomy?

Mamokgethi Molopyane, Mining and Labour analyst at Voodoo Consulting looks at the state of the mining industry and prospects for the future.

She says we did face one of the worst crisis in mining with commodity prices being so low. But she predicts things may pick up this year. There are still going to be sectors withing the industry that will shed jobs because they are under pressure, she says.

One of these sectors is the platinum metals group.

It affects us because we are one of the world's largest producers of platinum.